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Widely used security
software has been discontinued after its creator discovered the Syrian
government was using it to spy on its opponents.

The "disgusting" way the DarkComet Remote Admin Tool (Rat) was being used in Syria had led to its production being halted, said Jean-Pierre Lesueur.
He said his intention had only ever been to produce tools that were better than those commercially available.

Experts welcomed DarkComet's demise, saying the Rat was being widely abused.
Syria's use of the tool emerged earlier this year as the
government sought to keep tabs on opponents in the country's ongoing
civil conflict.
Once DarkComet is installed on a target PC it allows remote access to that machine and can log any activity on it.
The Syrian government attempted to use this function of the
Rat by trying to trick its opponents into opening a booby-trapped Skype
chat message.
In a message posted to the DarkComet website, Mr Lesueur said
he was ending the project after four years of work because of the
widespread "misuse of the tool".
He said it was never his intention for the tool to be used by
hacker groups and he did not want to be held responsible for what
people, and governments, had done with DarkComet.
Mr Lesueur said he would continue working in computer security but only on projects that could not be turned to malicious ends.Rat poison
The decision to shut down DarkComet means there will be no
future versions, but nothing has been done to remove copies of the
programs already in use.
Rik Ferguson, director of security research in Europe for
Trend Micro, said he and many other professionals had used DarkComet for
penetration testing and malware detection but not as a management tool.
However, he said, the overwhelming use of DarkComet was by
those with malicious or dubious intentions. He said some of the tool's
menu items and functions made it hard to believe it was intended
entirely for legitimate use.

He added: "It's not often you can welcome the demise of anything,
however, let's hope DarkComet is only the first Rat to take the poison."